Brian has been a practicing attorney since 2006. In 2011, he gained national recognition for his knowledge of short sales and foreclosures during a National Public Radio report. He is a contributor to the Idaho Business Review and contact for the Idaho Statesman and 580 KIDO.

In addition to his law practice, Brian often participates as an instructor in seminars for attorneys and workshops for real-estate professionals. Prior to earning his law degree, he worked for six years in IT as a Sr. Developer and Programmer for Nationwide Financial, a publicly traded company and affiliate of Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company.

RUSSELL LAW OFFICES provides legal services to clients in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington from offices in Seattle's historic Pioneer Square and Boise's Empire Building. Our regional practice emphasizes environmental, natural resource, real estate, and business matters. We also engage in litigation and provide mediation, trustee, and business management services. Our numerous clients include individuals, small to medium sized businesses, corporations, public agencies and start-ups. Prior to opening Russell Law Offices, Mr. Russell was of counsel with the firms of Neubauer Hunsinger and Ryan Swanson in Seattle. He also served as Regional Administrator of EPA's Region 10...

Eric is a peer-reviewed, AV-rated attorney and key member of the Jones & Swartz civil litigation team. He is involved in a full spectrum of complex cases ranging from serious personal injury, to employment matters to commercial litigation. Eric has successfully litigated a wide variety of cases for clients of the law firm, in Boise and beyond. Eric represents individuals and businesses of all sizes doing plaintiff and defendant work.

Initium provides experienced corporate legal services for your small business, start-up, or nonprofit. Essentially, we offer your organization a “Virtual General Counsel”. Initium uses an innovative approach that disrupts the status quo through a nonprofit law firm model aimed to make business law services attainable to small businesses, startups, and nonprofits. Initium employs alternative fee structures, including a pay it forward approach where technology companies can pay it forward to off-set legal costs to startups. We think this promotes growth and innovation in the Boise community.

Ms. Maxwell has spent her legal career as in-house counsel primarily focused on...

I joined Generations Law Group with the goal of helping individuals and families preserve the wealth they have worked had to earn during their life. Since watching his my own family members lose their life savings on their long-term medical costs, I have known I wanted to help others avoid the same fate. I received my J.D from Concordia University School of Law in Boise, Idaho; and then received my LL.M. in Taxation from Boston University School of Law.

During law school, I worked as an extern for the Idaho Fourth Judicial District Court, and the United...

Cheryl Allaire has more than 20 years of experience providing legal and strategic counsel to businesses ranging in size from small start-ups to established publicly held corporations. Her practice focuses on a wide variety of corporate and business matters including entity selection and formation, corporate governance, equity and debt financings, SEC securities compliance and public company reporting requirements, venture capital and private equity, mergers and acquisitions, partnerships and joint ventures, commercial transactions, contract negotiations, employment and consulting agreements and equity compensation plans. She assists businesses throughout their entire life cycle, from startup to exit, and in many different industries including...

After working for a major Chicago firm, Steve moved to Boise, Idaho, and took a position with the Idaho Supreme Court and, later, with Hawley Troxell Ennis & Hawley. As a partner at Mooney Wieland Smith & Rose PLLC, Steve helps businesses defend their operations and intellectual property.

For more than 43 years, I have helped entrepreneurs and small, and family-owned businesses overcome legal obstacles, reduce their personal and business risks, and achieve lasting legacies.

Setting up businesses for long-term success from the formation through ownership and management succession is something in which I take great pride. I believe establishing and maintaining long-term relationships is the key to serving clients.

To that end, I work every day to deliver legal services efficiently in a supportive, empathetic environment.

My colleagues and I create, implement and continually improve an array of systems and services to meet the needs of our clients...

Brian's practice focuses on family law, estate planning, criminal defense and business law.
Brian is licensed to practice in all Idaho courts as well as the U.S. District Court for the district of Idaho. He is also actively involved in church and community service in the Boise area. Brian is an Eagle Scout and volunteers his time as a Scout Master for his local Boy Scout Troop. He is also an active member of the family law section of the Idaho State Bar.
Brian was born and raised in Idaho. In his free time, he enjoys spending time with his...

Jaren moved to Boise after graduating from the University of Iowa School of Law, a nationally-ranked top-tier law school. She began her career as a family-law attorney and then spent several years representing sophisticated corporate and professional clients in major tort litigation. Throughout her career, Jaren has represented clients in a variety of business, tort, employment, and family law disputes. She has managed litigation from start to finish, through both extensive settlement negotiation and trial. At Wieland Perdue, Jaren continues to litigate on her clients’ behalf in a variety of legal matters. Her practice...

I am the owner of Meridian law firm specializing in business matters including litigation, business formation, employment law, administrative law, and other matters related to small and medium sized businesses. I have had a variety of experience in litigation, property disputes and have successfully resolved multiple matters through alternative dispute resolution. I am active in the community and an active and involved father.

I mainly represent clients with their business and bankruptcy needs. Most of my work relates to helping clients organize, reorganize, buy/sell and merge companies. I expect that no attorney in the state of Idaho has more experience with complex mergers and acquisitions.

37 Years experience with same law firm assisting a wide range of individual, governmental, insurance companies, and other institutional clients in Idaho and Wyoming in general civil litigation and estate planning. Cases including jury and court trials in all state and federal trial courts, and appellate courts including Idaho Supreme Court, Wyoming Supreme Court, and 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.

Taylor Law Offices was founded by Matthew Taylor. After graduating from Linfield College, with a B.A. in Business and a concentration in Business Management, Mr. Taylor attended law school in New York. While attending law school, Mr. Taylor focused on receiving his Business concentration from Albany Law School and founded Taylor Law Offices in 2011. Mr. Taylor is a proud member of the Young Lawyers Association, Corporate Law Section of the Idaho State Bar Association, Real Property Section of the Idaho State Bar Association, Taxation Section of the Idaho State Bar Association and sits on the Form Book Review...

Natasha concentrates her practice in the areas of estate planning, probate and bankruptcy. She is experienced in administering decedent's estates, establishing guardianships and conservatorships, handling will contests and breach of fiduciary litigation. She also has experience advising clients on individual and multi-state sales tax issues.
Natasha was admitted to the Tennessee State Bar in 2004. She began her legal career with a large law firm in Memphis practicing in the areas of probate, estate planning, bankruptcy and civil litigation. While in Memphis, Natasha was active in the Junior League of Memphis, served as President of two non-profit organizations, and was...

I manage all aspects of contract development for MotivePower, Inc. I engage in customer negotiations and facilitate cross-functional group communications to implement proactive strategies to complete sophisticated project deliverables in the rail industry. I ensure focused legal support to a team of Project Managers that coincides with internal risk management strategies and complies with larger corporate obligations. In short, I help my team to build cutting edge, highly engineered, locomotives for the freight and transit markets.

Michael A. Hall is an attorney in the law firm of the Idaho Business Law Group, PLLC. His practice emphasizes real estate law, business law, collections, and bankruptcy law, with a focus on small and medium sized businesses. He has work for over ten years in public accounting with PricewaterhouseCoopers and Deloitte, where he focused in the areas of corporate and pass-through entity taxation. Mr. Hall is also a CPA. Prior to joining the Idaho Business Law Group, he worked for five years in-house with a commercial real estate developer, where he worked real estate and...

Joseph S. Kozlowski is an attorney practicing in Meridian, Idaho. He was raised in Idaho and graduated from Meridian High School. His practice focuses on all aspects of estate planning, business and tax planning, including: establishment of wills and trusts; probate and estate administration; business and corporate formation, operations, and mergers and acquisitions; asset protection; wealth preservation; elder law and Medicaid planning; charitable giving and the establishment and operation of charitable entities. Former Chair of the Taxation, Probate and Trust Law Section of the Idaho State Bar Association.

Business laws include all municipal, state, and federal laws that regulate businesses and commerce. Some industries, such as finance, face specific laws and regulations that apply to those in the field. Businesses of all types also must conform to many regulations that apply across the board, such as environmental regulations and advertising laws.

A business lawyer can help you address the myriad legal issues that arise when you are starting a new venture, operating an established company, or winding up or selling a business.

Business lawyers handle a broad spectrum of legal issues that confront companies. For new ventures, a business lawyer can help with business formation decisions, including selecting the proper business form, such a partnership, LLC or corporation, or addressing financial compliance issues when raising capital. In addition, business lawyers can offer advice when reviewing leases, purchase agreements, and other types of contracts. Other issues covered in this practice area include employee compensation and benefits, building relationships with independent contractors and other entities, and compliance with relevant advertising regulations.

While most business lawyers deal in transactional work (contracts and forms), some also litigate business disputes that arise from transactional work. Business litigation attorneys may handle issues such as breach of contract claims, consumer class action lawsuits, and wrongful termination claims.

Business judgment rule:
a presumption that directors making a business decision, not involving self-interest, act on an informed basis, in good faith and in the honest belief that their actions are in the corporation's best interest.

Pierce the veil:
A court no longer affords a shareholder of a corporation the protection of limited liability when the corporation has neglected corporate formalities and intermingled assets between the shareholder and the corporation.